There were a bunch more pictures where I got this from, apparently all from the same facility. They all use the exact same tray, no matter what’s being served.
Since this got a lot of upvotes I’ll probably share the others over the next few days. They’re not all quite as awful as this one (it’s by far the worst) but they’re not exactly great either.
They house you, they feed you, they give you medial care — all for free. Generally also access to counseling and educational resources.
It would be dehumanizing if there’s feces on the floor and cockroaches in the food but that doesn’t appear to be the case. I’ve seen many people in “freedom” live in more squalid conditions than this.
40 states currently have ‘pay to stay’ programs, but, my understanding is that they’re the minority of prisons even in those states, and generally the ones on the softer side of the spectrum. still very fucked up.
I need to detach from this convo as I’m getting kind of infuriated without being able to do much about it. I live up in Washington state now, but used to be a Cali boy and shit like this gives you such whiplash if you believe the news about how blue California is. 😂
good luck man. And same! Used to live in Folsom. Now I live in Seattle. Not that rancho cordova didn’t have it’s charms, eh… but I’m a happier person here.
Costa Mesa up to Seattle myself, love how green it is. But noticing how much Spokane vs Seattle politics is at play as I get used to this plane I just moved to… same shit, different place haha
Having to eat bland chicken soup from a tray isn’t cruel and usual. There’s probably plenty of people out there in the wild who aren’t eating much better (or anything at all) tonight.
the fact that some people aren’t eating has literally nothing to do with grind all of a prisoners food up into a mush just to make sure they can’t enjoy any aspect of it.
locking someone in a cage is way more than enough punishment.
we’re supposed to be rehabilitating them so when they reenter society they’re not completely feral
As I said in another comment ITT, I found some more pictures, likely from the same facility, and this is by far the worst of them.
I’ll post them in the upcoming days. None of them are anywhere near gourmet quality obviously, but they do at least look edible to me.
But again, you’re not there to enjoy yourself after all. Many of these people did something cruel and usual to their fellow citizens in order to end up there, and some of them might in fact deserve far worse a fate than eating bland and unappetizing food.
most people in there shouldn’t be in there, many are completely innocent… the united states has the way too many people behind bars and it’s very well documented.
yeah, they’re not there to enjoy themselves, but they’re not there to be tortured either….
That may or may not be the case, but there seems to be no point in continuing this discussion here as all of my comments appear to be getting deleted by a mod anyways.
But yes, I’m sure there’s plenty of people in there who don’t deserve, just as I’m sure that there’s plenty of people on the outside who should be in prison in their stead. And yes, the food does look rather pitiful, but that alone doesn’t look like a human rights violation to me as it seems edible in a pinch.
If that’s all they get for a single meal, then it’s still nutritionally deficient. You can argue exactly where the line falls, but “as long as they don’t starve to death” isn’t it.
I don’t think anyone is arguing that a tray of soup is a well balanced and nutritionally sound meal, but these aren’t the metrics we use to evaluate “food crimes” around here either. There’s not enough context from one image of one meal to draw conclusions about the state of affairs of food in the prison system at large.
I mean, I doubt it’s very good considering what cafeteria food was like in school, but this isn’t enough info to warrant sharpening a pitch fork.
Did it? Don’t quite remember that quote. Must have been that scene right after they fish him out of the gutter and have breakfast on the Nebuchadnezzar.
I was so confused about what you meant by eating on the Nebuchadnezzar until I connected the dots that this was probably the name of their ship.
My mind had assumed the possibility that their belowground refuge somehow contained the tomb of Nebuchadnezzar and that they would eat breakfast off of it, but no that would be silly.
It’s lacking for a noodle, but it doesn’t look like bad soup. The presentation is obviously not amazing, but it looks better than my elementary school chicken and noodles did.
My guess would be shredded chicken, which would explain those white fibers everywhere. I certainly can’t see anything remotely resembling dumplings, however.
Excellent movie. Hugely enjoyed all three of them as a kid even though I didn’t even understand half of the jokes and most of the references made. Should probably watch them again some time to find out what I missed.
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